After reading Gutkinds 61-68 I leaned a lot more information that I could put into my own works that would make them better and more creative. I really took a lot from the paragraph that talked about geography and travel. This paragraph stated that information about location can add substantive and allow you to connect to more readers. I realized that this paragraph speaking about location could also be applied to much more than just travel and location. Connecting with the reader is in some aspects the most important thing to do as a writer and adding information that would help them better understand what you are talking about is key. Location and/or place is a big topic that we explored earlier in Gutkind and other pieces of work were we learned describing setting is the one of the most important things you can do as a reader. When I was writing my first short essay I tried to make sure I described the setting …show more content…
We listen to our iPod and iPhones rather than our environment and outside noises. We find that we are missing many sounds and instead choose to listen to a song we’ve heard a million times. He poses the argument that we need to find time to spend in silence. Censorship, propaganda is something we need to be finding time to silence. We always have a TV or phone near by and Slouka argues that we need to isolate ourselves from these objects, or in other words to silence ourselves from these devices. I connected this article with the video we watched in class with that comedian. I remember him stating that we are in a constantly noisy area, we have come to become afraid of silence, we always need something there around us. Silence is a feeling of disconnectedness and it makes us scared and